could water be used for fuel on a vehicle?

Aug 9th at 12:54 am By: dredead1

yes, it’s called steam…..

Aug 9th at 1:34 am By: james w

Yes if it ,the auto, had a steam boiler and then it would be a Stanley steamer.

Aug 9th at 2:20 am By: chipmunkian

Yes, water can be broken down into hydrogen. There are people working on creating a hydrogen cell to run cars.

Aug 9th at 3:27 am By: lady_jhereg

There were rumors one was invented in the 70s… But I can’t find any difinitive info on it… However there have been a lot of people trying to make water-fueled and hydrogen vehicles.

http://www.pureenergysystems.com/news/2004/07/07/6900032_Earth2012_WaterCar/index.html

Aug 9th at 4:29 am By: Lord Bear

yes..and they already have prototype hydrogen powered cars..

Aug 9th at 6:10 am By: mustanger

There is the possibility of powering a car with steam from water however water is not the ‘fuel’. The fuel is whatever is burned to create the heat to boil the water. Hydrogen is a component of water but no one has, as of yet, come up with a way to extract the hydrogen in a small efficient package that could be used in an auto. I can hardly believe that there still people who believe that old wives tail about a 100 mile per gallon carburetor. A carburetor is merely a device to mix gas with air and control the ratio of the two. Get the ratio to rich (heavy on the gas) and the engine will smoke and choke out. Get it too lean ( too little gas) and the engine will burn holes through the tops of the pistons. A lean mixture means less gas being burned during each revolution of the engine therefore greater gas mileage. The limitations of the carburetor is why all manufacturers finally dropped it for fuel injection which is much more efficient and easier to optimize for the best gas mileage. You can only squeeze so much energy out of a gallon of gas. The best way to increase gas mileage is to cut weight. Moving weight requires energy. More weifgt more energy required to move the same distance. There is a former race car mechanic who is building a car in India that uses compressed air to push the cylinders. In it’s current version it will go about 120 miles on one tank of air then needs to be recharged either at a station or with the on board compressor plugged in to an electrical outlet overnight. He’s working on a version which will have a compressor run by a small gas engine (think lawn mower engine) to recharge the tank and would be capable of going coast to coast on one tank of gas. Looking at several years in the future but it would make the hybrids worthless.